Academics
Course Description
This course focuses on all areas of communication: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students will explore various genres, time periods, and cultures through required and self-selected literature. Students will enhance writing skills through vocabulary, grammar, MLA formatting, and journal writing; in addition, one will use prior knowledge and hopefully gain new knowledge and understanding in the areas of research, test taking, study skills, and organizational methods.
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This course is designed to examine major news and issues of the day. The course will focus on local, national, and international events making headlines, and will utilize a variety of media to obtain different perspectives on those topics. The course is intended to teach students awareness of how news stories may directly or indirectly affect their lives, and to encourage them to become more informed young citizens as they prepare to take on the responsibilities of adulthood.
Tech communications is a survey course in the basic principles of oral communication. This includes the study of the use of the body, voice, speaker/listener relationships, and verbal and nonverbal communications. Students will be taught how to present themselves professionally and confidently while delivering a variety of speeches.
